Days before the first Republican debate, Donald Trump has surged into the national lead in the GOP primary race, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush following, a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll shows.Trump is the first choice of 19 percent of GOP primary voters, while 15 percent back Walker and 14 percent... read more

Hillary Clinton said Friday that she and her husband have paid almost $44 million in federal taxes since 2007.Clinton was expected to post eight years of tax returns on her website Friday afternoon, covering the years between her last major tax disclosure as a presidential candidate in 2008 and last year.In a statement, the Clinton campaign said... read more

Jeb Bush defended his remark that he would “phase out” Medicare in an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt on Friday, saying Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton deliberately misinterpreted his point when she quoted it in a speech earlier that day. “First of all, I’m not for phasing out Medicare,” Bush said. “I said that we needed to... read more

In an era when young people are increasingly staying home on Election Day, candidates are seeking new ways to engage a potentially promising voting bloc: millennials--specifically female millennials. And to do it, they're turning to an unlikely source: TheSkimm.
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the 2016 Democatic presidential candidates, accused corporate America of backing immigration reform to import lower wage labor that competes for jobs with U.S. youth, including Latinos.Sanders, participating in a forum for presidential candidates hosted by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Thursday,... read more

Potential arch-rivals in next year’s presidential election, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton will share a stage together in Florida Friday.Bush and Clinton, both favorites for their respective party’s nomination, will both address the National Urban League conference in Ft. Lauderdale as they make their case to black voters.Democrats Bernie Sanders... read more

Ohio governor John Kasich may sneak into the first Republican presidential debate based on recent polls, which would avoid the embarrassing prospect of not qualifying for a major campaign event in his own state. Kasich got into the race late, launching his campaign in Columbus last week, but has one of the deepest resumes in the field,... read more

Hillary Clinton will call for lifting the trade embargo on Cuba Friday in a speech in the backyard of two pro-embargo Republican presidential candidates. In a speech at Florida International University in Miami, Clinton will call on Congress to lift the Cuban embargo and call Republican arguments against restoring relations with the communist... read more

SILVER SPRINGS, Maryland – Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Wednesday he has “no regrets” about his comments on the Iran nuclear deal. “No, I have no regrets,” Huckabee told reporters after meeting with the executive council of the AFL-CIO here. “I feel like I spoke the truth. I still feel like I’m speaking truth. And the... read more

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal accused rival Jeb Bush on Wednesday of backing “amnesty” in the former Florida governor’s interview with MSNBC’s Jose Diaz Balart -- even as Jindal’s own position and rhetoric sounds nearly identical. “During a recent Spanish-language interview with Telemundo, Jeb Bush called for amnesty for those who are in our... read more

Donald Trump wants to bring Sarah Palin with him to the White House.The Republican presidential candidate and billionaire real estate mogul said on Tuesday that he’d be ecstatic to include Palin in his cabinet if he’s elected to the nation’s highest office.“I’d love that. Because she really is somebody who knows what’s happening and she’s a... read more